dril

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dril c (singular definite drillen, plural indefinite driller)

1. drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus)

• dril on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

See drille (“to tease”).

• IPA^(key): /drel/,

dril n or c

1. banter, kidding, teasing

• drilleri

dril

1. imperative of drille

• IPA^(key): /drɪl/

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• Hyphenation: dril
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Likely borrowed from English drill or French drill (see the oldest quotation), perhaps from an African language.

dril m (plural drillen)

1. a drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus)
   • 1793, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, "Bijvoegzel tot de natuurlijke historie van de Oranga-Outangs", De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie, addendum to Volume 11 (part XIV, page 24), tr. by J. D. Pasteur, publ. by A. Blussé & son, page 2.

     Het is ook datzelfde dier, dat BOSMAN Smitten genoemd heeft, dat verscheiden reizigers Barris, andere Dril en enige andere Quimpezé genoemd hebben,

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   • 1882, Charles Darwin, De afstamming van den mensch en de seksueele teeltkeus, tr. by Hermanus Hartogh Heys van Zouteveen Vol. 2, publ. by J. J. van Breederode, page 240.

     Bij den dril (Cynocephalus leucophaeus) zijn de wijfjes en jongen veel bleeker gekleurd, met minder groen, dan de volwassen mannetjes.

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• mandril

Borrowed from German Drill, Drillich, from Middle High German drilich, from Old High German drilīh, from Latin trilīx.

dril n (uncountable)

1. drill (dense, stout fabric, often of linen or cotton)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dril

1. inflection of drillen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɪl/
• Rhymes: -drɪl
• Hyphenation: dril

Borrowed from Dutch dril (“drill”), from German Drill, Drillich, from Middle High German drilich, from Old High German drilīh, from Latin trilīx.

dril (plural dril-dril)

1. drill: a strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave

Internationalism.

dril (plural dril-dril)

1. drill:
   1. an activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence
   2. a short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition

• tubian
• latih tubi (Standard Malay)

• “dril” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /dʲɾʲɪlʲ/

dril f (genitive singular drile, nominative plural drilí)

1. alternative form of drithle

Borrowed from English drill.

• Rhymes: -iw, -il
• Hyphenation: dril

dril m (plural drils)

1. drill (white English linen fabric, used in Brazil, for men's suits)

• “dril”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “dril”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Middle Irish drithle. Cognate with Irish drithle.

• IPA^(key): /tɾil/

dril f (genitive singular drile, plural drilean)

1. a drop of dew
2. tipsiness (state of being slightly drunk)
3. spark
4. sparkle

Borrowed from English drill. Doublet of terliz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɾil/
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: dril

dril m (plural driles)

1. drill (fabric)

• “dril”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10